Star Ocean: Starting from the Abandoned Mining Space Station

Gallo Star Territory.

Gallo-2 sector.

Division of the Fourteenth Legion.

The captain's cabin of the capital ship located above the planet's orbit.

Bai Quan's deputy is reporting to Bai Quan the estimated size of the machine fleet that has been calculated recently.

Obviously, the number of mechanical races in the Gallo Star Territory exceeds the average invasion level in other regions by more than 50%, and only the Gallo Star Territory has welcomed two super ships at the same time.

Although Baiquan has experienced several large-scale battles with the machine clan, he still couldn't help but feel a little emotional when he heard the data reported by his deputy: "These are two ships... Even from the direction of the headquarters, there is only one ship."

The deputy had never really seen a super body. When faced with Bai Quan's emotion, he couldn't help but asked curiously: "How strong is a super body?"

Baiquan did not blame his deputy for talking too much, and asked: "How many fleets did we have here at the beginning?"

"Forty-two capital ships, 4,200 cruisers, and several destroyer escorts."

"How many reinforcements are behind?"

"Eleven capital ships, 800 cruisers, and several destroyer escorts."

"Together, these can drag you down for ten minutes."

The deputy's expression suddenly stiffened: "It's so... exaggerated."

"Is that an exaggeration? Let me tell you this."

"Ten of the top psykers in the entire empire, level 6 psykers, are selected to deal with a super body alone."

"Just like that, on the day the machines invaded, a level 6 psyker died."

"It wasn't carelessness, he was fully prepared, but he died."

"Although that super body has been retained, the Machine Race can still build another super body. We cannot train a level 6 psyker in a short period of time."

There is one thing Bai Quan didn't say, that is, now that Chen Ming is away, the official version of the super-body wreckage cannot be directly converted into combat effectiveness even if they take great risks to retrieve it.

It can almost be said to maximize losses.

If Chen Ming was still here, the official version of the super body could be reactivated directly, and the other super body in Chen Ming's hands could be used to hunt other super bodies. This would snowball in the opposite direction, and the machine race might have been doomed.

"pity……"

Bai Quan shook his head and continued: "Also, the Mechanical Tribe has a total of six super-bodies, and one-third of them have come to us. If many people didn't think that the Mechanical Tribe might increase their investment in this place, we would be here today. The losses so far are not limited to those currently counted.”

"The only super body we encountered so far has been destroyed. The other super bodies were only temporarily intercepted, causing some damage but unable to completely solve it."

"The speed of the super body means that it is absolutely impossible to catch up with it using ordinary means. The entire empire is actually helpless against the super body."

"That's where the real exaggeration comes from."

It's easy to block super bodies.

Just know the destination of the super body and ask the president to release the psykers a certain amount in advance.

The super-body must go head-to-head with the psykers if it wants to achieve its goals.

But it is impossible to chase the super body. No one knows which direction the super body will go outside the empire when it escapes.

There's no way to pursue him when he's running away.

All the empire can do is passive defense.

Moreover, super bodies often enter the empire from different angles along the empire's borders.

This resulted in the president having to stay awake 24 hours a day, and when a super body appeared, he would immediately send the long-prepared psykers to the appropriate position on the front line.

Just thinking that this situation has been going on for at least a month makes Bai Quan feel a little numb.

He shook his head and stopped thinking about it. Psykers always have a way to persevere as psykers.

No matter what happens elsewhere, anyway...

"We have to retreat."

"If the mechanical fleet has penetrated our defense line through unknown means, Gallo will no longer have any protective value."

"I have already chosen the route. I need to avoid the fleet that is invaded by the mechanical race. There are traces of warships that are suspected to be more advanced warship models."

"Yes." The deputy responded immediately, but then added: "There is still a team that has not returned. The one you personally sent out before...do you want to record it as missing?"

"Don't."

Bai Quan waved his hand, picked up the terminal, dialed a number and said, "President, I'm sorry to bother you."

The words fell.

Psychic energy fluctuations and space fluctuations intertwined and appeared in the captain's room.

This is the psychic energy fluctuation that belongs to the president.

Although this may not be good for the president, the president's psychic power really has a very important effect in both a tactical and strategic sense.

At the moment when the psychic energy fluctuation reached its peak, twelve tired-looking figures appeared in the captain's room.

A young-looking officer at the front stepped forward, stood still, and saluted Bai Quan.

Although there was an unconcealable fatigue in his expression, his eyes were extremely clear.

"Fortunately, the mechanical clan's Colossus-class battleship has been confirmed to have sunk."

As he spoke, he took off a small special sensor recorder from his chest and placed it in front of Bai Quan.

This records the entire process of the mechanical clan's colossus being sunk.

Bai Quan turned on the sensor directly and played the recorded content.

Although there was no obvious external influence in the picture, the colossus that was originally suspended quietly in the center of the mechanical fleet suddenly and inexplicably imploded.

Starting from the engine, two of the three ring structures were burned directly, without any sign of invasion by foreign enemies.

Bai Quan closed the record and said with satisfaction to the officer in front of him: "Well done, Lu Bai."

Lu Bai was an electronic technician who, with the help and command of Chen Ming, invaded the Yuhui giant shipyard and successfully seized control of part of the shipyard.

After that, when Chen Ming met him again, he awakened a spiritual power that could control electrical signals.

And within a few months of awakening his spiritual power, he relied on his spiritual power to destroy the mechanical race mothership.

But now, there is another highlight in his record.

Bai Quan put away the sensor and said, "Lu Bai, take your team to rest first. We will talk about other things later."

"yes."

After Lu Bai left, Bai Quan turned to his deputy Shudong: "We have an advantage in tactical goals, but it does not mean that we have an advantage in strategy."

"Even if we achieve results on one battlefield, as long as it does not affect the strategic objectives, what we want to do will not change."

"Okay, everyone is here now. Let's go do things. If you need to retreat, retreat when you need to. Don't hesitate too much."

"yes."

After the deputy left, Baiquan was the only one left in the captain's room.

He didn't ask his deputy to report the number of losses just now because he wanted to see for himself.

After just one glance, he wanted to close the terminal without looking any further.

The losses were indeed quite heavy.

Nearly half of the fifty-three battleships that came over were sunk.

A capital ship can carry tens of thousands of crew members, and every time it is sunk, it means the casualties of at least one-third of the crew.

Even if they have only completely lost one battleship so far, the casualties along the way are already countless.

Not to mention more cruise, deportation, and escort losses.

Even if many of the casualties were new recruits, those who survived were either veterans or became veterans.

But it is difficult for them to continue to bear such losses.

There is no benefit in prolonging the situation, they must withdraw.

After Bai Quan finished reading the data, he closed his eyes and rubbed his eyebrows vigorously.

He opened his eyes again, opened the terminal, searched for contacts, and made a call.

Cheng Xinghai's voice soon sounded from the terminal: "Is there any news?"

"not yet."

Both of them fell into silence.

After a while, Bai Quan took the initiative and asked, "How are you doing over there?"

"I've been on the front lines since the war started."

"I've wronged you."

"It's okay. If I go to the front line, I will only give targets to the machine clan, and unnecessary resources will be wasted to protect me. It's good for me to stay in the back, at least I don't have to think about so many things."

For others, it was a good thing not to be on the meat grinder front line of the empire and the machine race, but it was different for Cheng Xinghai.

But as Cheng Xinghai said, if she wants to go to the front line, she will inevitably be targeted by the machine tribe.

A similar thing happened last time in the Mechanical Race Star Territory.

As the creation of the Shining Civilization, a creature that has similar emotions to the Empire, the Machine Tribe does have the ability to understand interpersonal relationships.

And they have already understood Chen Ming's interpersonal network, so they naturally know what Cheng Xinghai represents.

Cheng Xinghai also knew what she should do to avoid putting unnecessary burden on others, so she took the initiative to choose to stay behind.

Cheng Xinghai's sensibleness made Bai Quan fall into silence again.

This time, it was Cheng Xinghai who took the initiative to break the silence: "Recently, someone from the empire brought people from Chen Ming to me and said they wanted to test a project he had worked on with others before. Can I go?"

"What project?"

"Neuronal connection technology."

Bai Quan regained his energy a little, recalled the content of this project, and immediately said: "You can go, I have learned about this project."

"Even if you stay in the safe rear, you can use this technology to return to the battlefield."

"Really?" Cheng Xinghai's tone was full of expectation.

"I see."

After chatting with Bai Quan for a while about the current situation.

Cheng Xinghai hung up the phone and dialed another number.

"I agree to participate in the testing of neuron connection technology. When can I start?"

"That's it now."

"Just now."

Ten minutes later.

Cheng Xinghai saw an alien shuttle boat landing in the school parking lot.

A woman who looked to be in her thirties got off the shuttle, but it could be seen that she was just taking good care of herself.

She took the initiative to hand a business card to Cheng Xinghai and said: "Hello, Cheng Xinghai, I am Xu Ping, the technical partner of Chen Ming's friend Mr. An Wuping."

"Who is An Wuping?"

Xu Ping chuckled and stretched out her hand to signal Cheng Xing's sea shuttle.

"This is a bit complicated to talk about. We'll talk about it later on the way."

Cheng Xinghai put away his business card and followed Xu Ping onto the shuttle boat.

After roughly learning from Xu Ping what Chen Ming had not told her about An Wuping.

She probably understood why people came to her.

“So what exactly is this project going to do?”

"Neuron link technology is a technology extended from the ability of a hive mind network that both Mr. An Wuping and Mr. Chen Ming have mastered."

"The development of psychic technology now makes it possible to construct a psychic hive mind network."

"And as you know in the current general environment, the application prospects of this technology are on warships."

"These special warships have no pilots and rely purely on the hive mind network to link the warships and pilots."

"Simplifying the operation of the spacecraft through the thinking ability of the human brain greatly reduces the difficulty of operation."

"This places high demands on the level of awareness of the special driver."

"We need psykers with enhanced thinking abilities to conduct the test."

Cheng Xinghai asked: "Has the sample been made?"

"Yes, there is actually a psyker in the legion with similar abilities to yours, but his direction is logistics research and he doesn't understand ship command."

"Originally, this project was still a bit unfinished, but I suddenly remembered what Mr. Chen Ming said when this technology was first proposed."

"If this technology produces results, I can ask you to test it. This may be the most suitable technology for you."

"The results of the experiment will determine whether this technology can be applied to the front line during the war with the machine race."

"I see."

at the same time.

Odan star field.

Chen Ming's old acquaintances, Liang Fei and Li Wei, were changing into military uniforms and boarding the local army's ship.

The Odan Star Territory is also close to the Edge Star Territory, but they have not been attacked by the mechanical superbodies, but they do not have a strong enough military force.

The outer fringe star field cannot hold it anymore, and they cannot survive alone.

After retreating from the edge star field of the outer ring, they, as the star field of the outer third ring, need to send military forces to the front line.

No one understands the principle of lips dying and teeth falling cold.

As liaisons between the government and the military, the two of them need to go to the front line to obtain first-hand information and send it back to the government.

As psykers, they are all around level 4, and they have some say on the ground, but in the war in space, even they are just a drop in the ocean.

They were not supposed to be responsible for this task, but the failure of the war in the outer second ring star field caused the liaison personnel originally sent by the Odan government to lose contact.

The two of them are not only replacing the missing liaison officer, but also serving as reinforcements to meet the troops retreating from the Second Outer Ring Road.

Liang Fei said to Li Wei when changing his military uniform: "The situation over there won't be very good, and I don't know if we can withdraw."

Li Wei said: "I heard that the people on the Gallo side next door are safe after they evacuate."

Liang Fei shook his head and said: "They can even suppress the mechanical race over there. If there is not a mechanical race fleet that goes around, they can continue to resist."

"The reason they can retreat at will is because they have an advantage on the battlefield, forcing the mechanical tribe not to launch the next attack. Moreover, the mechanical tribe also needs time to rest after occupying the territory."

"But the situation here is not ideal. I hope our luck can be better."